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The New Testament was originally written almost exclusively in Greek. That means that the most authentic teachings of Christ the Redeemer were preserved in the Greek world.
What kind of Christianity is predominant in Greece today? Orthodox Christianity.
Checkmate Catholicfags.
And by extension: Checkmate Protestantfags, wasting their time talking shit about the Catholicfags instead of being True Orthodox Christians. Shame.
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>>917274
What are the stats on the Analovos?
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What kind of retarded logic is this?
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Orthodox Christians have sicker robes than anybody else.
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Chinese culture is rock solid.
There are no leaps of faith. A reasonable and balanced approach to life and the universe is already encoded into the language.
Yin and yang, feminine and masculine, passive and active, child and parent, wife and husband, woman and man, younger brother and elder brother, elder sister and younger sister, kohai and senpai (in the Japanese pronunciation of those Chinese characters,) servant and master, worker and boss, beast and person.
No bizarre one-sided conflict between good and evil, where an all powerful god somehow allows the devil to exist and ruin his shit.
No apocalypse, no day of judgment, just eternal balancing and rebalancing of the yin and the yang. Cyclical. No selling all your earthly possessions and waiting for the rapture. No suicide bombings for Confucius. No need to invent planet Kolob while squatting in the bushes.
It's consistently natural and conservative, in the real sense, the sense of seeing life as something requiring continual balancing, not as a progressive rush to paradise and the perfecting of man at the apocalypse.
There's no ideology on earth that has the stamina to outlast this worldview. It's the past, and it's also the future.
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>>916092
i wonder who's behind this post?
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>>916101
I'm actually white, and a Hellenist. Just playing devil's advocate.
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If Chinese culture was so great, it would've withstood Western ideologies. Unfortunately, most of China's traditional culture is gone and replaced with consumer capitalism, just like their neighbors.
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Why was Germany always so bad in foreign policy?
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>>916970
Because they only want to have serious discussions.
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Because 'Germany' never existed. You had Bavarians, Prussians, Hessians, and Saxons, but no Germans. No one cares about German identity except ivory tower elites who saw in a unified nation an opportunity to benefit themselves.
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They didn't want to bend the knee to Jewish bankers.
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>metaphysics is dead
When will this shit meme end?
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when people stop jerking it to ethics
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When we dispel the false notion of it being alive in the first place.
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>>915951
>When will this shit meme end?
It's been dead for 50 fucking years.
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Can we say there is inferior cultures? That someone from some place, with certain traditions and manners is 'uncivilized'?
Could we say there's a standard for being 'civilized', without being biased?
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>>916873
>Can we say there is inferior cultures?
Yes, and it's called American culture.
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>>916873
Nope since every culture has its own measurements to determine whuch culture is superior and which not. And, suprise suprise, their own culture is always the one who fits all criteria.
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>>916873
Without being biased? No.
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Is life actually horrible? Or am I just mentally ill?
I've been kind of feeling like I should end my life. I talked to a psychiatrist about it and he said I'm mentally ill and have Major Depression and a few anxiety disorders. I've been taking the medications for about 5 months (had to switch a few times), but essentially I have this doubt about it all. I'm thinking that actually it's not ME that is the problem, the problem is life itself - in that basically it's really fucking horrible. I haven't fully accepted this conclusion but I'm really leaning towards it - that life quite literally is a hell. All I do is suffer!
If you want me to outline my personal reasons for saying life is a hell I can, but mostly what I'm interested in is YOUR views about life.
Do you think life is a gift? Do you enjoy your life? Right now, if you shift your attention foces throughout everything that you're experiencing (i.e. say your visual field, and then your body feelings, the thoughts you have, what you're hearing, etc), which parts of your current experience would you say is pleasurable? What parts (just right now) would you prefer not experiencing? Or you skip experiencing it until something pleasurable comes along.
I mean, are all parts of your experience pleasurable, desirable, you want to keep having those sensations/perceptions/thoughts? Or you would prefer to just not have them for now, because they aren't worthwhile/they burden you/you don't like or want them, and you'd prefer they went away and only came back when they experience was pleasurable?
Are you glad you were born? Are you happy to be alive?
And a final question, what do you think happens at the end of life? Because what's been informing or pushing me towards suicide, is this idea in my mind that death is the end. I wont experience anything ever again. So my thoughts were that all my experiences burdened me, so I would like them to stop forever. But now, I'm not so sure. is it the end?
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I'm fairly depressed and therefore my life is mostly displeasure but the few pleasurable things keep me going.
I firmly believe that nothing at all happens when you die. And I'm OK with that
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as the buddha says, life is suffering
same with arthur Schopenhauer
even jesus said something along these lines
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>>917100
There is a book in the bible called Ecclesiastes which comes with such exciting chapters as
>Everything Is Meaningless
>Pleasures Are Meaningless
>Wisdom Is Meaningless
>Toil Is Meaningless
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>Julius Caesar never said "et tu Brutus"
>he probably just screamed and shat in his toga
>mfw the best death in history is fictional
Why is historically accurate history so disappointing /his/?
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He caught Casca's hand when he moved to stab him.
That's pretty badass.
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how do you know that you're image is any more accurate?
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>>915618
sounds cool but where can I read of this
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Not sure if it belongs on /his/ or not, but I certainly can't post this on /pol/ ("lol gtfo liberal nigger"). How would you guys react to meeting a modern day royal? Throughout history, common people have been forced to bow, not speak unless spoken to, say "your majesty", etc. Would you follow royal protocol, or would you disregard it and treat them like a normal human being? Personally I would detest calling another human being "your highness". Thoughts?
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You can literally test this. Just go before any judge and address them as anything other than "your honor."
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In my country (Norway) the royalty is looked upon as celebreties, and not "higher" than the commoners. You can speak unformal to them, and it will go just fine. I think that's because Norway has been semi-socialist to socialist for about 70 years. Also "Janteloven": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante.
I think it's different in Britain though, were there still is a huge class divide.
The Danish queen, objected when a reporter spoke to her unformally, so I guess the royals are "above" the commoners over there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TITQCQuzJdQ
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>>915463
I just shook Queen Lizzies hand and gave her a nod when I met her. I'm not sure how I would have addressed her if I had more of a chance to make conversation but I wouldn't have used "your highness".
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Why was that spot in Eastern Europe spared the devastation of the Black Death pandemic?
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quarantined in time
also poland was kind of a backwater and no one really went there anyway
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>>915615
>Poland was more of a backwater than scandinavia, russia etc
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No Jews to poison the wells.
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What the hell happened to Germany, and society as a whole? Why is everything so dirty and shady now? Cities no longer look like this, no one is so emotional around random strangers. Did Germany die after WWI, like a lot of other powers?
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>>915368
German Romanticism was destroyed by WW1&2 and is now replaced by "Pragmaticism"
There is no Germany anymore, They are now pretty much serious Americans
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>>915368
How does the 116 years gap differ in cities like London, Paris, Moscow?
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>>915401
Well, for Paris I know it was the same beautiful setting. Paris even being conquered in 1814 still retained its French beauty and significance. I also realized how even the bums would be considered well dressed in today's standards. Why are standards dead?
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Which is the toughest, smaller country, judging from their military history?
I would say Vietnam
>rebelled agains Chinese rule all the time
>successfully defended against mongol invasion when the mongols were the most powerful
>completely destroyed the French army
>defeated the US even though they were divided
>occupied Cambodia without hardship
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>>915112
You forgot the bit that French held them for a century and China for a millenia.
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Vietnam, Finland, Israel
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Switzerland
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If you claim to have free will, I'll ask you to explain how you make a decision.
If you can answer this question by telling me a decision making procedure/algorithm then your decision was deterministic and hence not free.
If you cannot explain how you made a decision, then you obviously had no control over it.
Does this disprove free will? I'm sure it does.
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>>914956
I suppose you could say for the latter that you had control over making the decision in the first place, i.e. choosing not to decide. Although I guess that decision in itself factors into your rubric as well.
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>>914956
Ah, but I could also not answer your question. How 'bout that, Mr Gorilla.
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>>914956
Why does being explainable mean it's non deterministic?
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In which ancient cultures was public nudity most acceptable?
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The culture of pot dwelling philosophers
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Bonobo culture.
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Pretty much everywhere but the Middle East
Why was homosexuality so popular in ancient Greece?
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>>914856
You mean you wouldn't?
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Why it isn't so popular now? With all the bullshit that associated with whores, bitches and such it seems that fucking with your bro wasn't that bad idea after all.
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>>914856
>doesn't see the tits on the receiving figure
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Battle Elephants... Truth or fiction? How they are used and why they aren't used more? They seem like ancient analogue of moderns tanks to me. No way bunch of swordsmen could even harm one.
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>>914783
Rare
Not bred in captivity until 18th - 19th century
Good tactics against them were developed when years were still counted down instead of up
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Alexander's army fought against and then used some
Elephants are mainly only useful against people who have no fucking idea what an elephant is
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>>914783
Definitely truth. Alexander faced them, we have records by the Romans from the first Punic War to the Jewish rebellion and later, and execution by elephant was and may still be a big thing.